7th heaven dad Stephen Collins admits to molestation

[gloomyharlow]

I mean. . . at least he admits to it I guess. ?? Still a pig and I hope he never works again.

I bet he will work again. Look at the way Roman Polanski's a** gets kissed even though he's a rapist himself... winning Oscars he can't pick up personally because he fled to France in order to avoid extradition. He still doesn't think what he did is wrong and demands that charges be lifted. Lunatic. At least the piece of garbage that is Stephen Collins admits to what he did. Then again...it was all recorded on tape...with his voice...so it's not like he can deny it.

 

[Swanky]

I doubt he'll be hired. He was forgettable already, butt to be an admitted rapist AND a C-list actor....
He has no value IMO.

 

[Swanky]

Stephen Collins Gives First TV Interview Since Scandal (Video)


Stephen Collins is speaking out in his first television interview since his child molestation scandal and says that he never wanted his acts of sexual abuse to be known by the public.
“I had put that stuff behind me,” the 67-year-old 7th Heaven actor said in a 20/20 interview with Katie Couric. “Most people get to, or have to or choose to hide it. This came out. I didn’t choose this to come out. I didn’t want to have to deal with these things publicly.”
“I had dealt with them very, very strongly, and committedly, in my private life, but I think, I’m a human being with flaws and I’ve done everything to address it,” he added.
“I’m a flawed person,” Stephen continued. “And in the church, it’s actually one of the things I love about the church… it’s really one of the main things about the Christian faith, is you know, Christ said in so many ways, ‘bring me that … which about you is broken, bring it,’ and most people are broken in some way.”


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Stephen Collins Opens Up About Molestation Cases: 'I Did Something Terribly Wrong That I Deeply Regret'

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Stephen Collins is finally opening up about his child molestation cases.
The 67-year-old 7th Heaven actor has released a lengthy statement in which he admits to inappropriate sexual contact with three female minors after allegedly confessing to the crimes to his wife Faye Grant in an audio released earlier this year.
“Forty years ago, I did something terribly wrong that I deeply regret. I have been working to atone for it ever since,” Stephen told People. “I’ve decided to address these issues publicly because two months ago, various news organizations published a recording made by my then-wife, Faye Grant, during a confidential marriage therapy session in January, 2012. This session was recorded without the therapist’s or my knowledge or consent.”
“On the recording, I described events that took place 20, 32, and 40 years ago,” Stephen continued. “The publication of the recording has resulted in assumptions and innuendos about what I did that go far beyond what actually occurred. As difficult as this is, I want people to know the truth.”
More of Stephen‘s confession will be revealed in an in-depth interview with Katie Couric, which will stream on Yahoo! and air Friday (December 19) on 20/20 on ABC!

 

[Jalulia]

I doubt he'll be hired. He was forgettable already, butt to be an admitted rapist AND a C-list actor....
He has no value IMO.

To me, the whole situation is creepy.

And great. He admitted it, but that doesn't absolve him of those crimes.

 

[Swanky]

Of course not. I'm just saying at least he's not denying it.
He needs to go far, far away.

 

[AChanelADay]

leave Jesus out of this you pervert. but yea whatever...who said it "God forgives, I don't."

 

[berrydiva]

The show got cancelled from syndication, right? Can the case sue him for their residuals/royalties? (same for the Cosby show especially since it was making so much in syndication too)

 

[DebbieAnn]

Notice in the picture from the interview that his eyes are red; probably will shed some tears.


I will not watch this piece of s**t & hope others don't either.

 

[Swanky]

EXCLUSIVE: 'I was 13, never even been kissed. Mr Collins asks if he can get comfortable and returns totally naked. He puts his genitalia right at my eye level. It was terrifying.' Victim of accused pedophile Stephen Collins breaks silence

Stephen Collins went from being a famous and respected actor who played the virtuous dad and minister on the hit TV series 7th Heaven to an infamous accused pedophile after his estranged wife taped him confessing to molesting three underage girls between 1973 and 1994.
April Price was one of those girls, and she is the first of Collins' victims to come forward and tell her story in a Daily Mail Online world exclusive.
April was 13 when the then 35-year-old Collins exposed his naked penis and body to her — not once, as he's claimed, but on three separate occasions.
In an interview with the Daily Mail Online, April, now 44 and a wife and mother in Oklahoma, breaks her silence, as she re-lives the sexual assaults she endured while on summer break in 1983.
'I was visiting my aunt,' April recalls. 'She was an executive producer in Los Angeles. She lived in a walled-in, gated community of apartment complexes and her apartment was kitty corner to Mr Collins.'

Teen fan: As soon as April Price arrived in Los Angeles in 1983 to spend the summer with her TV producer aunt, she found out that Collins was a neighbor. 'I got extremely excited because he was the star of the show The Tales of the Gold Monkey. That was a show I didn't miss,' April told Daily Mail Online

April couldn't wait to get an autographed photo of the handsome actor. He gave her one before she returned to Oklahoma, after the incidents where he exposed himself to her. The caption on his autograph is 'Come out and see us again some time, Love, Steve Collins'

April, now 44 and married with a son, told Daily Mail Online 'What happened with Mr. Collins had some kind of impact. Those early feelings of helplessness made me not want to be touched for years after. I didn't want to be approached for the longest time'

'As soon as I arrived, I find out that Mr Collins is a neighbor. I got extremely excited because he was the star of the show The Tales of the Gold Monkey. That was a show I didn't miss. It was cool in 1983.'
'Eventually I got the courage up to knock on his door to ask for his autograph and he was kind and said, "I don't have a photograph here, but I will get one and get it to you."
'The, one day I was in kitchen cooking breakfast and I look up and I see Mr Collins walking through the courtyard, right in front of my aunt's big bay window. He was completely naked. He had no clothes on whatsoever. He had a wad of clothes in his hands.'
'I was taken aback. That was strange. Wow. Who would do that? At the time, I didn't think it was necessarily sinister really, but I thought it was odd. It was not like he tried to cover up. He knew I was there while he was naked. He could see me there.'
'Then another day, later, I asked a neighbor about that because it had stuck with me. I did think it was extremely bizarre behavior. We don't go around naked here.'
'She tells me he had just been filming in France, so of course, my Oklahoma and thinks, "Oh, okay. It's France. It's weird, whatever. It's an aberration." I let it go.'
Days later April was hanging out in the rectangular courtyard that surrounded by the apartment buildings in the complex. She had a package with her from her mom.
'I forgot to pack the adapter chord for my Atari to hook it up to the TV. I had no idea how to hook it up,' she relates.
'I happened to run into Mr Collins in the courtyard. I was explaining this to him and he offered to give it a go. I invite him into my aunt's apartment and I took him into the living room where the TV was and he started to attempt to fix this.'

Fun-loving: April was a carefree kid from Oklahoma until she was subjected to the perverted behavior of the actor. When Collins offered to help her install her Atari he exposed himself for the second time

'I don't know at what point he did it, but when he turned around, his pants were completely unfastened. His penis was hanging out and I'm just shocked. He doesn't make any mention of it. He doesn't act any differently.'
'So I decided to play along and didn't say anything either. I just acted like it was not out, which was weird because it was hanging out of his pants.
'Honestly, I was 13 and hadn't even kissed a boy yet. This was not something I was even remotely prepared for in my life and I shut down. He was acting normal so I was determined to do the same.
I had never seen a grown man's penis before. I never could understand the desire or the need to bring his penis out.

'I kept my gaze at eye level. I didn't want to be rude. He was doing something for me. He was fixing something for me. I didn't want him to think i wasn't appreciative of that. He'd fixed my Atari and went home.
'I had never seen a grown man's penis before,' April reveals. 'I never could understand the desire or the need to bring his penis out. I mean, he's fully dressed. His penis is hanging out in my aunt's apartment. I wasn't capable of responding to that, at the time.
'So again, i just let it go. It felt really strange but he's been in France. Maybe he just can't stand to have clothes on for any more than ten minutes.
'I didn't tell my aunt. I i did tell her about him walking through the courtyard because to me that wasn't sinister, just weird. But no way could I tell her that he was in her apartment with his penis out.
'I knew that it would not end well for either me or him. And I didn't want to get shipped home, you know?'
The third time Collins exposed himself to April, she was tanning in the courtyard of the complex. She loved lying out in the sun.
'My aunt had this really cool Bain De Soleil sun cream and it was exotic and it smelled really good and I just loved to lay out, coming from Oklahoma and all.
'It was a very safe complex. No one can get in who doesn't live there. I was comfortable. It was sheltered there. It was the middle of the day and no one was around. I may have been dozing when I notice Stephen Collins had come back up to me. again.'
'He had approached me several times over those weeks. And now he was next to me at the pool. He came and went a lot and I heard he was shooting a mini series in another state, so it was random when he'd be around.'
'But when he was, he would be wearing a white bathrobe or whatever but he would always come up to me, very complimentary, nice and engaging. He was one of the people who would grab your eyes and look at you and actually talk to you.
'And for a 13-year-old,' April continues, 'and he's an actor and he's nice looking and he seems normal, it's flattering. It really is flattering. So after the shock of the exposure in my aunt's apartment, I kinda felt like I was lulled back into a sense of, you know what...This was an aberration and he's nice guy.
'I'm telling myself he's a nice guy.
'So now I'm laying out by myself in the apartment complex and he comes home in the middle of afternoon and sits down beside me and we are having a conversation and he made mention of some memorabilia from the show Tales of the Gold Monkey that he had in his apartment.'
'He knew I was very interested in the show because we talked about it. So he asked me if I'd like to come over and look at all the stuff that he had. And I did.'
'Warning bells, yes, but also more interesting is the chance to look at the pictures from the set and the props that he had so I went to his apartment.'
'They were on this high credenza. I remember I didn't need to bend down to look at them. They were pretty much eye level and I remember there was his pilot's hat that he wore on the show, and a picture of the dog which was of course really interesting to me.'
'He says, "Do you mind if I get more comfortable?"
'I'm in his apartment. What am I going to say? So he goes back into his bedroom and he comes back out into the living room and he is completely naked. Totally naked. And my heart fell. This was terrifying.'
'Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. What am I going to do? It was really sad because at 13, we're taught to be respectful. We're taught to be honest and kind. I don't want to appear rude. I don't want to say, 'Oh my god, get your clothes on.'

Where it happened: This is the apartment building where April's aunt - and Stephen Collins - lived. His apartment was kitty corner to her aunt's

 

[Swanky]

I'm in his apartment. I just don't know what to do.
'I remember I just sat there on his couch as tight as I can be. Arms together, legs together. l'm thinking to myself. oh my gosh, oh my god.'
'And he is nonchalantly fixing some light or fixture that is three feet away from me. It was a standing light and I think he was changing the bulb. But he puts his genitalia right at my eye level.
'So it's like you can't help but see it. I'm sure he was aware of that. I was panicked. There it was. It was right there, not a few feet away from my face.'
'I was panicked. I didn't know what to do. I was trying to appear not rude but it was so disconcerting. But even more than panic, I was shutting down. I didn't want to seem like I was flipping out.
'It was more like 'I better keep it together' so I just shut down. I don't know if I was afraid for my life, but…I don't think he ever made me feel that he was capable of physical harm.'
'I felt dirty. I felt so many emotions I can't describe. I was getting ready to get in the shower when I see Mr. Collins had shown up to talk to my aunt.

'But, I was not prepared on any level to handle that at my age. I shouldn't have had to see that, at that point in my life.'
'I'd never seen a penis before,' April explains. It wasn't completely hard but it wasn't flaccid either. It wasn't erect but it also wasn't soft. I was trying not to look at it. I don't know what gratification he got out of it. It freaked me out.'
'Yet, there I am. I'm sitting there, and now I'm trying to take responsibility in my mind, thinking 'I should have never come over here. This was an incredibly stupid decision on my part! i'm wondering how I'm going to extricate myself from this terrible situation not be rude, not flip out.'
'Then all of a sudden, like a ray of sunshine, here comes my aunt, walking by the window. She had come home early and I saw her and it was like, 'There's my out. Gotta go. Bye.'
'I bolted out of the door. There wasn't a chance for him to make a comment to me. Nothing. She was my lifeline. She was my saving grace. And out the door I went. I met her in the courtyard. Don't remember what I said to her. I was really nervous at this point but conveyed to her I wanted to get in the shower.'
April was still wearing only her one-piece black bathing suit.
'I felt dirty. I felt so many emotions I can't describe. I was getting ready to get in the shower when I see Mr Collins had shown up to talk to my aunt.'
'He must have had to run to his bedroom as fast as he could and put on a half-buttoned up shirt and jockey shorts. Tighty whities, as we'd call them, but they were blue.
'And he came out to confront my aunt and told her, 'Oh yeah, she was in my apartment. Everything's fine.'

Collins played a minister and a married father of six on 7th Heaven

'Well, she was something to behold when she was angry. She was in a position of power and in the back of my mind I'm blaming myself for being in this situation. My aunt could have cratered his career if she had chosen to.
'So I never told her he was naked when I was in his apartment. She thought he was dressed in that shirt and briefs the whole time. But if you could see heat waves coming off of someone, that's what she looked like. She was livid.'
That was the end of that. April never saw Collins again for the remainder of the summer. When high school rolled around, she began realizing how those 'exposures' really effected her.
I'm sure it effected my sexuality and relationships. I was stuck in an apartment with a 35-year-old man's penis just feet from my face.

'You have hindsight from those experiences. I was really pretty much a 'touch me not' in high school. Any guy that I was ever interested in me, I ran from.
'Having attention? That was uncomfortable for me. A guy would try to hold my hand and it was electric and I had to pull away.'

'What happened with Mr Collins had some kind of impact. Those early feelings of helplessness made me not want to be touched for years after. I didn't want to be approached for the longest time.
'I'm sure it effected my sexuality and relationships. I was stuck in an apartment with a 35-year-old man's penis just feet from my face.
'In the end I was lucky it worked out for me. I met my husband and it couldn't be better. I'm lucky because I found "my guy".'
For many years, April did not tell her husband about Collins' exposing himself to her. She did, however turn one of the instances into 'sort of a joke in my head,' she said.
'The instance when he was walking naked through the courtyard almost became funny to me. I allowed it to almost be a joke in my head. There he was, waltzing through the walkways in the complex totally naked carrying his clothes in his hands!
'I told my close friends and family, those I could trust. So even though I never told my husband, I think he knew about that one time. It was the other two instances when he exposed himself to me that I kept close.

Collin's starred with Keri Russell in The Babysitter's Seduction. He plays a widower who seduces his teenage babysitter

'I didn't want to dwell on it and I didn't even want to think about it for myself.'
But April was forced to dwell on it again last September. Audio tapes, in which Collins confessed to his wife that he'd exposed himself to young girls, were leaked on TMZ.
Collins and then estranged wife Faye Grant were in a private therapy session Grant secretly recorded.
'I heard him describing me. I knew I'd have to tell my husband.
'That damned tape…I was out walking the dog and my husband was watching the news and when I walk back in I hear the tape. It was almost a "shut down" again.
'Oh my god, here it is again! How do I deal with it? It was freak out mode. I called my mom immediately and she's in panic mode because she saw it too on the news.'
'I didn't really listen in its entirety that night but I posted on my private Facebook. I wanted to corroborate the story. If the police are interested in me, I want them to be able to find me.'
'I knew when the audio tape cut out my name that Stephen was saying "April" and I knew he was saying the name of the street, 'Hayvenhurst.'
Collins claimed in his 'confession' (right) that he only exposed himself to April once.
Now April says: 'Once? Really? It was three times.

'Incident one was him going through the courtyard naked right by my aunt's kitchen door. The second time I invited him into my aunts apartment and exposed his penis while he hooked up my Atari.'
'And the third time was when he had me trapped in his apartment.'
'I'm now remembering how so stupid I felt back then because I didn't say anything. I remember thinking how I can't be rude. He's been nothing but polite. It's like his actions and his words didn't match. I just didn't know how to deal with that kind of a personality. I've never encountered it. I'd never met anybody who did that before. It was just completely alien to me.'
Says April: 'I'm now remembering how so stupid I felt back then because I didn't say anything. I remember thinking how I can't be rude. He's been nothing but polite. It's like his actions and his words didn't match'

The recordings mention Collins 'making an amends' to one of the women. That woman was April.
Sometime between 1996 and 1998, April recalls an awkward confession from Collins, on the set of his own show.
The 7th Heaven cast was shooting commercial promotions for local affiliates. April happened to be staffing the 'craft services' table.
'My aunt was a producer so always knew that Hollywood and the film industry was my calling. As soon as I graduated, I came out to Hollywood to work. She made commercials and music videos.'
'I started out doing Craft Service, which is providing snacks and drinks for the crew. Eventually, I became a script supervisor but I was asked to run Craft Service for a friend as a favor.
'I was working on this commercial set, and all of a sudden I look up and there's Stephen Collins. I think I saw him before he saw me. I'm like, "Oh my god, How do I deal with this?"
'He came up to the other side of the crafts service table. He was very intense. He said, 'I want you to understand what I did. I know it was extremely wrong.'
'This is a professional situation. I'm not going to have a complete meltdown on the set. This is something that ruins careers, honestly.'
'I was behind the craft service table. I knew the minute he saw me, it was full recognition. You could tell. It was a complete deflation. So he goes on camera. He's doing his thing. No one was paying attention but I could tell he was shooting glances over at me.'

 

[CobaltBlu]

Wow. And I totally believe her.

 

[Swanky]

'I'm sitting over there thinking, 'Ok, how am I going to handle this, frankly? I'm in a position where I could have technically said something to his producer.'
'Then it dawned on me that he's on this show with all these young minors, how do I handle this?'
'The biggest problem was there was no proof. How am I going to confront him without looking like I'm looking for fame or money?'
'Those are the two misconceptions that everybody has when somebody comes out and speaksout against a celebrity, especially. I'm not looking for money. I'm absolutely not looking for fame. This is not about me. It's more about the truth.'
Eventually, during that promo shoot, Collins did approach April 'when nobody else was around,' she said.
'He came up to the other side of the crafts service table. He was very intense. He said, 'I want you to understand what I did. I know it was extremely wrong. I really apologize for it, if I ever made you uncomfortable.'
'I don't remember how I responded. I just was saying to myself, 'Keep professional. I want to work in this business.
'I accepted his apology at the time. I was conflicted but being on the set and having this blow up, I wasn't sure what to do.
'I know how victims were being treated. The whole Michael Jackson child molestation thing was in the news. And I had no proof. So me throwing a fit, I don't know if it would have done anything, other than making me look like a lunatic and I might not work again.

Denial: For his part, Collins claims that he's not a pedophile or 'it would have happened many, many more times,' he told Katie Couric in an interview

'Yes, I was gracious to him on that set. When I went home, I had a chance to think about it and process it and to file it.
'I felt like I had to wholeheartedly accept his apology. This was something I had to let go of. I'm not the type of person who can sit around and be angry over things I had no control over.
'At that time, the exposing himself only affected me, or so I thought. And he took responsibility for it, then. If he's truly repentant, do I want to carry around this anger and truly destroy his career over it?
'That was my turning point. I thought, 'You know what? I can close the book on it. I can finally just let this go. It wasn't for him. It was for me.
'I decided to let go of the poison and become a whole human being again. It worked because I met my husband a couple years later.'
Having finally thought the past was behind her, April was none-too-pleased to find out that Collins was now talking about her - on the leaked audio tapes during a private therapy session, and on 20/20 with Katie Couric.
April learned there were three victims now. Not just her.
'Three now? This didn't just involve me anymore. There are at least three of us, maybe more.I contacted the New York Police Department because they were the ones with an active investigation.
'But what a a gut punch finding out that others were hurt. I can keep quiet when it's just me. How can I have the responsibility of those who have not suffered if I'd spoken up back then? Now I was feeling extremely guilty.
'You know, I wish he was a plumber. Then he wouldn't have gone back on TV to talk about me. been on TV and I'm being victimized all over again.
'It makes me angry and I'm not an angry person. It makes me want to say, 'Don't ever do this again. Don't ever do this to some other little girl who has no idea how to even process this.''
When Collins decided to confess to Katie Couric on 20/20, April said she forced herself to watch, despite how 'painful' it would be — because she knew he'd be talking about her.
'He really deflected and minimized the truth. If he wants to take responsibility for his actions, why minimize so much? I understand trying to save the career but if you were truly repentant and truly remorseful, I'd think you'd take a little more responsibility.'
He said on the show that he saw the look in my eye and had to cover up immediately, which of course causes me to chuckle because he only covered up after I bolted out of the apartment.
'He put on clothes to talk to my aunt. He didn't do it for my benefit.
'But I knew he was going to talk about me and I wanted to know, so I could respond to what he said. It would have been so much easier for me if he hadn't gone on the show and downplayed everything.


April reveals that she ran into Collins when she was working in craft services as an adult. She happened to be on the set where Collins was shooting a promo for 7th Heaven. He came up and apologized

'And then I hear he exposed himself to the babysitter in his car, with his own child in the back seat? I mean, really? It just makes me disgusted.
'There's a part of me that makes me want to take some responsibility even though it wouldn't have been good for me to speak up at age 13. Nobody would have cared. Nobody would have believed it.
'But now this has happened and I didn't have a voice. So now, I'm like, 'How can I let this go?' I'm a mother. I don't feel it's responsible to not say what happened.'

April decided to contact both the NYPD and the Los Angeles Police.
'What happened to me happened within the jurisdiction of the LAPD or so I had thought at the time. LAPD called me back within 20 minutes. That just solidified in my mind that he's, yes, saying 'April' on that tape.'
April made a full statement to LAPD over the phone. An hour later, NYPD called. Two detectives flew to Oaklahoma and met April in her home to take a statement.
Then, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department called her because the crime happened in their jurisdiction and they, too, opened an active investigation into him.
'They sent two detectives to my home to talk to me. They kept in very close contact with me, but they knew that the statute of limitations to prosecute was up. They knew this would preclude them from charging Stephen but they wanted to work all of their options.'
'They wanted to make sure that if any other victims came forth that they would have fully investigated this and done everything they could within their power.'
'I knew it was going to be a dead end. I got the news from the D.A. in Los Angeles that no charges could be filed. Stephen could not be prosecuted.'
I just don't want his version, his truth, to be the one that everybody believes. It's not what really happened. He minimized it and cleaned it up.

'It wasn't a surprise because I knew it. I did a lot of research on my own when the tape came out. I knew the onus of the law. I also knew I wasn't going to lie and say he touched me just so I could get some kind of satisfaction by making him pay. It was…what it was.'
No criminal charges have been filed against Stephen Collins as of this date.
'My case would not have effected the case in New York since the incident didn't happen in New York. They just wanted the testimony in case they could go to trial for the other victims.'
'But it was my chance to talk about it. I didn't want to keep my mouth shut any longer.'
'I just don't want his version, his truth, to be the one that everybody believes. It's not what really happened. He minimized it and cleaned it up.'
'I read where one of the victims said he ejaculated? I tend to believe that because even though he denied it, he minimized my case, as well. Saying that there was just once incident. So what else is he minimizing to save himself.'
Though Stephen Collins won't be tried in criminal court, since the statute of limitations is up in all three cases, April thinks Collins paying 'restitution to this victims' is fair.
'If he were really truly remorseful, it's something he should do. However, I don't believe it's my place or anyone else's place to force that. So a civil suit, while it did cross my mind initially, I put it to rest very quickly because that's not what it's about.'

'It's sad because we're taught to be embarrassed but we shouldn't be embarrassed, I didn't ask for this to happen to me. So it's not me airing dirty laundry. It's not my dirty laundry.
'But I feel like it's a responsibility to say, "Hey, this happened. It doesn't define me. I'm not going to allow it to define me. And, no, I just don't watch him on TV."'
In recent months, Collins has been fired from two major motion pictures and was further humiliated when a leaked email from Grant revealed that he'd taken on a role as a pedophile priest in the short film 'Penance.'
Director/producer Jeff Wolfe said in an interview that he had not known about Collins' dark past but has since decided to donate all proceeds from the flick to the James Storehouse Foundation, which helps abused children.

When Collins decided to confess to Katie Couric on 20/20, April said she forced herself to watch, despite how 'painful' it would be — because she knew he'd be talking about her

 

[Swanky]

And even earlier, in 1996, Collins played a pedophile in Lifetime movie The Babysitter's Seduction. Collins character has sex with his teen babysitter, played by then 19-year-old Keri Russell.
In a 2000 episode of 7th Heaven that dealt with child molestation, Collins' character Reverend Camden counsels a girl who confesses to being sexually molested. Collins helps the girl get out her rage and pain.
April's response: 'It's ironic, isn't it? I wonder if he's searching out these roles or if they are finding him. Or if it's some sort of cosmic kismet. He's got a lot of material to draw on, I should say.'

For his part, Collins claims that he's not a pedophile or 'it would have happened many, many more times,' he told Couric.
He also said that he was a victim of several unwanted sexual advances from an adult woman in 'various states of undress' when he was a boy. This lead to what he called 'distorted thinking.'
'I did have someone in my life when I was between the ages of 10 and 15, an older woman, who repeatedly exposed herself to me,' Collins told the Yahoo Global News.

He told Couric his victims were 10, 13 and 14 – and he wasn't trying to bring up the older woman as an 'excuse.'
'That distorted my perception in such a way that some part of me felt – I never felt like I was molested. That word never crossed my mind as a 10 to 15-year-old boy. It was a very intense experience.'
'I think somewhere in my brain I got the equation that, 'Well, this isn't so terrible. This person who I trust is doing it…There was a power that she had over me that was intense. … It's also about a very distorted form of approval, he continued, adding that the woman was in various states of undress or completely undressed 'quite a few times.'
Collins added that he's not 'blaming' the woman for his actions, but 'I think that's an aspect that went into my own distorted thinking as a young man. It's the thing that makes the most sense to me' when answering the question of 'Why?'
Collins told Couric that he has is not attracted to children, and that the one incident in 1973, when he did make physical contact with one of the girls, woke him up and stopped him immediately from going further.

'It was the opposite of excitement or gratification,' he said.
To add even more fuel to the fire, Collins confessed in yet another therapy session with then wife Grant that he was glad she didn't give birth to a boy because he wasn't confident he could control his desire to have oral sex with him.
This information was contained in an email that Grant sent to Collins in 2013
She wrote: 'The comment you made just before I gave birth to our daughter when you said you hoped we didn't have a little boy, because "you just didn't know if you could keep his little penis out of your mouth" was indication enough that you were sick …'
Grant goes on to regretfully say, 'I should have followed my gut then, and then again 14 years ago, and kicked your *** to the curb.'
A source close to Collins told TMZ the allegations in the email are 'absolutely untrue' and that Grant never sent that email.
Then there were the erotic novels that Collins published — Eye Contact, published in 1994, and Double Exposure in 1996.
April finds it 'creepy' and 'ironic' that Collins went on to publish two erotic novels, one of which has the protagonist looking at a teenage neighbor girl through a window, just like in real life.
He said on Katie Couric that he saw the look in my eye and had to cover up immediately, which of course causes me to chuckle because he only covered up after I bolted out of the apartment.

'You know, I wish he was a plumber. Then he wouldn't have gone back on TV to talk about me. been on TV and I'm being victimized all over again.'
'It makes me angry and I'm not an angry person. It makes me want to say, 'Don't ever do this again. Don't ever do this to some other little girl who has no idea how to even process this.'
When Collins decided to confess to Katie Couric on 20/20, April said she forced herself to watch, despite how 'painful' it would be — because she knew he'd be talking about her.
'He really deflected and minimized the truth. If he wants to take responsibility for his actions, why minimize so much? I understand trying to save the career but if you were truly repentant and truly remorseful, I'd think you'd take a little more responsibility.'
'He said on Katie Couric that he saw the look in my eye and had to cover up immediately, which of course causes me to chuckle because he only covered up after I bolted out of the apartment
'He put on clothes to talk to my aunt. He didn't do it for my benefit.
'But I knew he was going to talk about me and I wanted to hear so I could respond to what he said. It would have been so much easier for me if he hadn't gone on 20/20 and downplayed everything.
'And then I hear he exposed himself to the babysitter in his car, with his own child in the back seat? I mean, really? It just makes me disgusted. I'm disgusted. I'm disgusted. There's a part of me that makes me want to take some responsibility even though it wouldn't have been good for me to speak up at age 13. Nobody would have cared. Nobody would have believed it.'

'But now I have a voice and I can let it go. I'm a mother and not a judge, jury and executioner on this man. I don't know if what he's saying is the truth and is truly repentant. That's between him and a higher being. That's not for me to say.'
'If somebody in Hollywood is saying, "He's repentant. I want to give him a second chance" because he's truly sorry,' that's fine. 'But I want the real story to be out there and not just Stephen Collins version of it.

'I'm standing up for myself. This whole thing is me standing up for myself. It's showing myself that I can be strong, but also if there's any small way that it helps other victims out there, just know you can tell someone. Don't be shy to tell someone who can help.'
'What happened to me in the big scheme of things isn't as bad as it could have been. But why I was able, over the years, to avoid some of the pitfalls of this tragedy, is because I've learned to talk about it.'
'For me, it's like releasing a poison. It's just gotta go.'

Says April: 'If he doesn't want to pay some of the money to his victims, he should donate in his victims' names. But it's up to him. I just think if he were truly repentant and remorseful, he'd go out of his way to do something that would really made amends.
'Is making amends just making an apology? I don't know. I'm not going to force anything out of him. If it really were about money, it would have been very easy for me to have pushed the issue. "Pay me or I'll talk." But the money is the least thing about all of this for me.'

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In that first photo of the article she looks so uncomfortable with him.